Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20d34b9b5ecafb65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 03:05:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 489fd7d964f8bc4ad9b6af10b39e1dff SHA-1: 2e64285dd476b6107d687fa2cde28582b29745a6 SHA-256: 20d34b9b5ecafb655d80d7428a5eafbf16f5fa86aa5a9649d33a698d1e2c292e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wordly+wise+3000+book+9+lesson+1+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7423caa7b2b2a4cd6cbf44e937b7f07/69714381030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c842bfca8---3547257254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8be86149dc75e70c18d83ba3ee7b416/fomafesisemutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/rikumilunaredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efefbd7237---fonopowiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608749d186890---jisupaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agencement-menuiserie-var.fr/stockages/files/55325545102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093af0124203---nepilekojupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/39087764841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdiy.cc/uploadfiles/files/20210611_164403_1421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/ligidakena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210718070904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/29897588036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2e0294ec6d---nujebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ready4use.ru/uploads/files/53597500507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dcbestwings.com/uploads/files/63216222429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23413acbb2---pigudori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c0b978868---87237562258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91oatsl4ru7dsiork0ramj26v9/18163445078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakebenmd.com/clients/0/0e/0eef9d569b11303d075d19626cc6f958/File/32507146822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geya99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60916890610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/80255980910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89e9b5f822---lewumotadorigonuluxaxixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cf9012bb5---45031367265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/86800624942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/678l8h2lcfbf0njgjf2n4p0el4/nofasidapasulibutifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF352 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B64 17376 bytes
SHA-256: c9a17ecb98f1d4f801de272e60cdc1e08bc907ffce4b71e93d388fecb048bb6b
font_02_sfnt_off000138f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138F3 11084 bytes
SHA-256: b8edc36688ee691d9497a92e5361cecaceadbf382082623423a0b3fbc689e1c4